Geronimo Rulli

Watch him turn world class, then we activate his clause and he doesn't want to come.
 
WTF is this?

My first thought was that this is a stupid deal. Then I thought no wait let's have a think about this.

After having a think....this IS a stupid deal.

Can't be correct.
 
RandomJ said:
So buy a player, then sell him and then buy him back for twice the money? What idiot came up with that deal?
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It's so stupid. If we've been scouting him, we should know whether he's good enough or not. It's either we haven't scouted him enough or we just want to waste money. He's not a kid, he's 24 years of age and I don't see the benefit of having him playing elsewhere for potentially 2 seasons.
 
So, let me get this right;
we buy a player for x,
loan/sell him to another club, again for x,
then, after 2 years, we buy him back for 2x

Is that (sort of) right?

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RandomJ said:
That's a good point. What if he just tells us to fuck off when we try activating the buy back clause?
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That's why this sounds so stupid it can't be true. Even if there is a buy back clause, the player will still have to want to come.
 
You can take the City out of the kit but you can't take the City out of how we do transfer business.
 
I'd wait for further details but it's a lot more complicated as a lot of South American deals are when you're buying directly from the source instead of waiting until their world class.

He's originally from Estudiantes then somehow his rights were bought by a Uruguayan club who then loaned him to Sociedad for a year, then loaned him for another year and was looking to buy him outright following the end of this season. Enter us out of nowhere who had more money to buy him outright but there might be a contract situation between us and Sociedad now that's trying to get worked out.

There's also the situation between Hart/Willy. Hart's days as # 1 could be numbered. If I had a guess he's probably the surprise big name that could be gone but Willy also has a year left. Depending how things go with Joe, he can improve his chances of staying number 1 by having a world class season or there's Rulli who can continue to develop into the next top keeper in the world.(Olympics this summer, another top season at Sociedad) and we can still end up getting him cheaper than looking elsewhere and paying £40-60M on a keeper somewhere else.

Reminds me of how clubs like Barca and Juventus buy players in South America but also get first options on literally all the rest of the top prospects at the club for cheap. There's a mention in this AS article of having an option on 19 year old winger Mikel Oyarzab who's highly rated at Sociedad included in this deal.

Again I'll wait till things are more official but this is what it's looking like to me
 
RandomJ said:
So buy a player, then sell him and then buy him back for twice the money? What idiot came up with that deal?
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He is not going to come to us this season. That is his decision and we can't change that presumably unless we promise him Hart's spot. So we have essentially spent 1.7 million to secure the right to buy him in the future for 12 million. We could not have bought him and loaned him for 2 years like many have said because he would not have agreed. If he is as good as many think, his going price could be around 40 by the time we buy him back. We are preserving (at a low cost) the ability to buy the keeper that we want in two years at a price that is much much lower than his going price will be (we think). We are also making sure that other clubs don't get him. If in the next two years he turns out to be shit...we have spent 1.7 million, we don't have to worry about selling him and we move on--thats the risk...1.7 million. That's my understanding of it at least. Quite shrewd. Also makes me wonder if we are in for Bravo...
 
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